• Coursework. Coursework will consist of weekly homeworks, two midterms, and a comprehensive final exam. The overall grade will be determined 20% from homework, 25% from each midterm, and 30% from the final. Group work on homeworks is permitted, but each student must list his or her collaborators in writing for each problem. If a student turns in a solution without listing the others who helped produce this solution, this act will be considered cheating (for it is plagarism). Late homework assignments will not be accepted.
  
• Exam policy. Exam performance must be 100% individual effort; no collaboration is allowed on exams. Any collaboration or copying on exams will be considered cheating. In addition to the procedures of the ICS Cheating Policy, students caught cheating on exams will be given a failing grade in the class.
• Text. The course text TBA.
• Add/drop policy. Drops will be accepted only up to the first midterm. Once your drop card has been signed, further coursework from you will not be graded. After the seventh week of classes, withdrawals will be allowed only by petition and under documented extenuating circumstances.

Tentative Schedule

• Week 1: Introduction, data structures, depth-first search.
• Week 2: Spanning trees.
• Week 3: Network flow.
• Week 4: Matching.
• Midterm I
  
• Week 5: Euler and Hamiltonian tours. NP-completeness.
• Week 6: Paradigms for graph drawing.
• Week 7: Divide-and-conquer and tree drawing.
• Week 8: Planar graphs and planar graph drawing.
• Midterm II
  
• Week 9: Flow-based graph drawing topics. Layered drawings.
• Week 10: Force-directed drawings.

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